An ancient author tells us somewhere, with the tone of a pedagogue, if you have not done anything worthy of being recorded, at least write something … - Giacomo Casanova
" "An ancient author tells us somewhere, with the tone of a pedagogue, if you have not done anything worthy of being recorded, at least write something worthy of being read. It is a precept as beautiful as a diamond of the first water cut in England, but it cannot be applied to me, because I have not written either a novel, or the life of an illustrious character. Worthy or not, my life is my subject, and my subject is my life. I have lived without dreaming that I should ever take a fancy to write the history of my life, and, for that very reason, my Memoirs may claim from the reader an interest and a sympathy which they would not have obtained, had I always entertained the design to write them in my old age, and, still more, to publish them.
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About Giacomo Casanova
Giacomo Casanova (2 April 1725 – 4 June 1798) was an Italian adventurer and author; also known as Jacques Casanova de Seingalt. He was famous for his elaborate love affairs and his encounters with famous contemporary figures.
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Also Known As
Native Name:
Giacomo Girolamo Casanova
Alternative Names:
Casanova
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Kazanova
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Giacomo Girolamo Casanova di Seingalt
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Giacomo Girolamo Casanova de Seingalt
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Giovanni Giacomo Casanova de Seingalt
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ג'אקומו קאזאנובה
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Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
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Jacques Casanova
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Dzhiakomo Kasanova
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Джакомо Казанова
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Giacomo Girolamo Casanova De Seingalt
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Casanova de Seingalt
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What do you want to say to me?’
‘Nothing — just to talk about the profession I am entering. I am about to practice virtue in order to find a man who loves it only to destroy it' [replied Mademoiselle Vesian.]
‘That is it exactly; and believe me, everything in this life is much the same. We refer everything to ourselves, and each of us is a tyrant. That is why the best of mortals is he who is tolerant.
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